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Volume XXXVIII.—No. II.
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ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1883.
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It U old that »t the pre«ert tine
between 65^00 end 70000 French
people are engaged in the ra*Bulac-
.ture of clocks and watches.
The Treasurer of Carroll count/,
Ark, placed $7,000 in an old boot lor
safe keeping, placing the bo«i in a
rubbish. Now he is fr/ing to nego
tiate with the man who stole the
boot.
Next in cheek to the stealing of a
red-hot stove wss the recent theft of
r • •’large steam boiler In Denver. • It
'was conveyed rwsy in a transfer
wagon and was found doing dm; for
—- a velocipede factory.
. A badness man in Portland, Me,
- subscribed liberally for a church
e the other day, and w accused
cinjr the wages of bis etn-
Miffltientiy to cover . the
_— _nt thus pledged by Ha
. Avows vendor bn ad Alabama
railroad recently revived tidings
that be had fallen heir to ♦18,000.
His name is Charles Lee, and lie is
about 17 year*of age. The. young
mao immediately left for New York.
White ants in the old State House
In Boa ton are causing considerable
alarm. The little pests have attack-
cd the wooden girders and eaten
i their way so far into them that it Is
9 rlMeved that the house Is in danger
„ lof tumbling over.
O Berlfa’a exports to the United
ties, according, torn correspondent
of the London Standard* “in 1883
were 75.000,000 less than In 1882. At
the same time they amounted to $50,-
000.000 more than in 1881. and had
more than doubled since 1878.’'
The account was published the
other day of bow a New York womao
-• caught a bnrglar by tbs heels. An-
~^~*ti that cdy tried to capture a
—*—, and got knocked
.... ... refyi| She got hold
of £fm by tbe wrong end. "
Woman suffrage has won its battle
In the Territory of Washington,
both Houses of the Legislature have
voted to strike the word “male” from
be election laws, and the Governor
is expected to sign the bill. If so,
tbe new law will go into operation
In sixty days.
A Connecticut man buried bis wife
Ian Saturday, heard of an estimable
widow in Brewsters, X. T.. on San
ds/, came for her and took her to
Danbury on Monday, and married
ter on Towlav. The paper that
Ceils this story speaks ol It aa •‘trter-
ably romantic.”
It is now proposed to use tbe enor
mous water powder of the Alps to
work electric railways in Switzer*
land.- Operations sre already began
Jo connect tbe towns of St. Molrifx
and Pontrestina by an electric rail
way, motive power being supplied
by mountain streams.
Mr. David Moses, the Dime Mu
seum gentleman whose marriage
with tbe fat woman attracted so mocb
attention recently, does not propose
to remain a widower very along.
During bis recent visit to Baltimore
; he divided bis time between mourn-
over hbdesd wife and coquetting
**to armless woman on exhibi-
■ tbe Monumental City, and tbe
' e wedded shortly,
ry is going to be well
a nails. The Bulletin,
Steel Association,
be nail works, and
r-fonr now complet-
~iines, and will add
e dose of the yesr,
k now works being
|re ' at least 200
operation by
t there will
EDITOBIAL NOTES.
Bradstreet reports 205 fail ores In
th«i United States for tho past week,
14 less than the week beforehand 38
more than for the corresponding week
of1882.
It I- estimated that Brooks county
spends 130,000 annually for liquor
More than half of tbU is spent by the
negroes. Notwithstanding this the
Free Press insists that it is “as dry as
a bone” down there.
CntXA talks war and -ig^ spite of
everything it looks as it .France would
drift 1 into - • it As: iLe “situation
seems on its face it appears inevitable
that France will be worsted, no mat
ter what her victories may be.
Ma. Faaxx V. Evas* of the Bir
mingham Ohrotticle * hslf
interest in his paper to Mr. Goe. M.
CruLbsnk. The Saws and Anyas-
tiskb will ever note with interest any
thing pertaining to Mr Evans.
A frouibitio!* option law in Ar
kansas provides jbat a petition of a
majority of male and female adults
can prevent the sale of liquor within
three miles of any church or school
house. The temperance people i.i
Little Bock seem about to triumph in
the botcontest over,'this subject.
Tnx question of “ twenty-four
o’clock’’ has nothing to do with *Mand
ardtime.” The Utter goes with our
clocks as they are. The proposition
of twenty-four o’clock instead of oar
two twelve o’clocks is simply one of
V and it wonld not be ear-
if it aboald eventually be
adopted.
A lawyer al Hillsboro, Texas, at-,
tacked the diameter of two young
ladies to save bis guilty client, and
tbe bar of that place moved to strike
him from the list of attorneys. The
legal profession In every town »hoold
follow this example. The noble pro
fession of law is too often degraded by
unworthy tricksters who are only re
tained by lie good nature of A be bet
ter clam of hiwen, thereby bringing
distrust on all; r i
Beooar- are not allowed to trouble
the New York eftjr^ merchants. A
blind negro bon-bon maker, “Candy
Sam,” was recently arrested for sitting
alms Ue liss sold candy for 20 yesr* in
Yale College, and had tbe nail of the
fore finger of his right hand trimmed
Into tbe shape of a pen, and be conld
write a very legible hand with it.
The Polioe Justice let him off on bis
promise to sell teftd pencils until he
could make money enough to pay a
month’s rent of a randy shop.
Psess dispatches of BonCay last an
nounce a terrible snow atorra to l^ave
prevailed on tbe Newloundlsnd coast,
on Friday and Saturday, attended
with vw>t destruction of life an-* prop
erty. A large number of vessels were
wrecked. Bodies of i- tfie . drowned
w.ere driven on shore «t?St. Schott’s
Fifteen or twenty^cessels were in
sight off Trepatsy harbor during the'
height of the storm, and seamen think
they could not possibly have with
stood the fory of that awful night.
TtntsbAT*s Telegraph and Messen
ger says “there were two negroes
present as witnesses al the Recorder’
Court yesterday morning, who could
not toll the nature of an oath. One
confessed that he didn’t know what
an oath was, and the other, when ask*
ed who he wss railed upon to witness
when be kissed the book, replied:
“Die here man and dis one!” They
were ruled out.’’ There tre very few
negroes who do really understand the
nature of an oath, judging from the
reckless manner in which they some-
Tbe Columbus Times remarks that
tbe pictorial papers of tbe North are
giving Ben Butler merry “Hail Colum
bia/’ and nobody seems to care bow
roughly it is pat on. Tboy have liis
bide tanned in the Tewkesbury style,
and it looks like they have got him
down good. But we suppose he will
mj, u Truth crushed io'esrtb will rise
again/’ and we have no objection to
bis considering himself ms “truth” in
such a straggle, nor would we object
to the rise. We will confess to a lik
ing for the old duke, in his Massachu
setts dukedom, bat not down this
way, if yon please, Horatio. Every
man In bis own bailiwick is tbe doc
trine.
Oveb
llawklMviUe
Intelligent people will never ac
knowledge that they a re superstition*,
yet how often lisVfl yda seen them
walk out from unde* a tree to get s
fair glimpse at the moon, for if you
see a new uioon on ila first appearance
through ary obstruct ion,-It bla sign
you will ace trouble. Wo know a
prominent citizen of this'county who
would get oil .bis horve, make a cross
mark sud spit hHt if he should see a
rabbit cross tho, read ahead ol him. We
know s well known and popular su
perior court-judge now on the bench
who cuts off his toe nails every Fri
day to prevent toothache. Ue has been
following tl-e custom fur years, snd
has not had the tuoibacheamce lie be
gan paring hi* nails on Fridays, snd
yet, up to the time be adopted the cus
tom, ite wss constantly annoyed with
toothache.
Col. C. CY Duncan of Houston,L now
carrying in hi* pantaloons pockets
buckeye ball knocked oat by a can
non bill that struck tne tree at the
battle ol Perry ville, Kentucky, in 1862.
Ue was crouching al the root of the
tree when the cannon ball struck it,
and he pul the buckeye in his pocket
as a memento of tho engagement, and
not a* a preventive of any disease,
yet he has never been troubled with
that ailment that is becoming so coal
man to people who were “born tired.**
And ihe America* Republican says
that CapL Jobn A. Cobb, of Sumter, i*
by no mean* supercilious, yet he
wear* a buckey e and a shark bone in
his pockets. The shark bone, he says,
will keep oil cramp. Both together in
the same pocket, be sat s, will keep
off chill* and .fever. The Captain
is in fino health, so Colonel Han
cock says and it t* pleasant news
to hi* Democratic friends in Haw-
kinsville, for we were afraid that
ho would pine away to mere skin
and bones after being read ont of the
Democratic parly hy the Sumter
Republican during tbe Gubernato
rial campaign of last year. Should
another Micb exigency or emergency
nVise, we propose to 'uke the 1 whole
editorial staff ol the Macon Telegraph
out on a grand bunt, and procure, al
ail hazard*, a ‘rabbit foot” to bn sent
to Cupt. Cobb to protect him iu future
against the liery assaults of Democrat
ic editors. ‘
TUe XVwr.ilie Hold Goes
Vsc-n Grabble.
“Yes, sir, we puck away auv quan
lily of it/* said one of our prominent
dentists the othci day, as he was pre-
p«ring the gold filling for a tooth.
In Uarou we Use about 320 ounce* of
gold a year, and about five times that
amount of other metal, such a* silver,
platinum, tin snd other things/’
“Gold tilling* are rather costly,
are they not?”.:
“Yes; the u-tial cost is from thirty
to thirty-fire dollars an ounce, so you
see that-Ibegold material tbat-we use
coats over ‘$9000. 'Ad to the cost »f
the othci stuff it Is hard, to estimate,
'but in I he aggregate it foots up a
,largo.amount/' . f. t
“Bat few people have an idea of
the vast amount that is used. In the
United States there are about 1,700
dentil's, and they pack into the teeth
of Auierirau people a ton of pnre
I fold every year, [\ About- five' times
i list 'weight of lee* |ireclous metal,
*-:ch as silver, platinum and tin, go
the same way. It is estimated that
tlii;. amount of metal is worth $1,000,-
000, nod that if (lie present dental
method* sr* IrepYup all' the coin in
the United State* .wilt have been
buried )jti the grantyicnis.br 'he time
tbfc twenty-first Whf dry rolls arohnrf.
It is said th*l the demand for gold
in dentistry is rapidly growing every
; rear. This is accounted for, in part,
»y the fact that many people with
fal*e teeth insist upon having them
filled so that they may seem all tbe
more natural. There are about
4,000.000 false teeth manufactured in
this country every year. The bn*i-
nca- of dentistry jh not what it used
to be, however, and prices have coino
down wonderfullly since the days
when the leading operators could af
ford to retire after a practice of eight
or nine years. Still there seems
plenty of work lo be done in the fn-
lure,seeing that the decaying of teeth
is increasing. Two hundred years
ago one person in five bad good teeth.
A hundred years about one person
in (went v-five bad perfect teeth; and
in this 19th century age of reform our
very latest statistics show that but
one person in eighty has perfectly
sound teeth. If it keeps on at thfo-
rate there - is & hopeful outlook for
the dentists. In this city we have
six, snd so far as observation goes
tbey are all kepfprety busy.
PftfK'a BAD BOY.
\ ;•
e a Bicycle.
—Jy to w<-rk,
[0.000 keg* of
srly. The
completed
1.000,000
Pcnmvl-
with a rapatii.
eat nails and
mill* and
have a ra
keg* less;
vatria, 2300000
WestVirgini*.'
setts, and 690#
Tbe Macon
following carious fact
from this city is a hickoi
ing again*! an oak (a*
growing fast to i».
their umbrageous boughs
cfasffed during the wind* of
and after tbe more quiet month?,
lowing;the wound* began lobeal
be united, a* if by first intentioi
partake naturally of the life-j,
.- sap, until they were firmly bound li
- / getter- This all occurr<.»d io the ante'
> £ .'.belfoiotime; yes, more (ban twenty
years ago, when Cofly was banting
for something satiable to make x
man! with which to split rails, when
be eota'portlon off and lo bis great
surprise tbe tree was left standing
Isio this day alive and growing.
_ stomp, maul and rails
* the no fence law i* in
interesting Ford
v once member*
<t gang of train
t* and robbers
treachery to Id*
g of one of tbe
sapture of the
gristing. Ill*
rarted a*
^fearing
million perron*
through tbe stiles of the Louisville
Exposition. The actual receipts from
admission were $191,433. The money
came in very alowly during the flr»t
five week-, snd the managers became
diseourged, bat after the Act month
the attendance wa«gra<luily in ere vied,
until, on lb? wghib week, the re
ceipU culminated. From that time
on to the close thegate-keepets turned
over about $15,000 a Week. The re-
waits upon the badness of the city
were also satisfactory, and Louisville
is so well satisfied with the ventore
that she proposes to retain tbe build
ing* for the purpo-e of having i ach
year a timiliar exposition.
A Lexixotok, (is., correspondent
,of the Augusts Chronicle tell* a novel
story of the fruitful rebuffs of advert I*
Ing. It f* to theeffect fhat bgentlem*n |
living in tbe Slate of Illinois advertised
himself as'4 candidate for matrimonial
and the notice fell under the observa
tion of a Isdy in Oglethorpe comity
and she at one# answered his notice.
The gentleman appointed a place in
some northern locality ,fot* the mar
riage ceremony and forwarded one
hundred dollar* to the lady to |>ay ex
penses to the place for marriage cere
mony. Tbe lady made all necessary
preparation snd took her departure
for the appointed locality. She
reached her destination 48 hours In
advance of her liege lord. At that
time he arrived and tbl* couple who
had never seen each other before then
were soon united io wedlock accord
ing to the forma o' law where they
were married. They lady h** quite
Origin or Billiards.
Tbe game of billiards was invented
about the middle of the sixteenth
century by a London pawnbroker
named WilHaix. Kcw. In wel weath
er the pawnbroker was in the habit t-t
taking down the three balls and with
the yard-measure pushing them, bil
liard fashion, from . the counter into
tbe stalls: In time the idea of a board
with side pockets suggested itself. A
black letter manuscript »ays: “Mas
ter William Kcw did make one board
whereby a game is p ayed with three
halls; and all the young -men were
gresily recreated thereat, chiefly the
young clergymen from St. Pawle-*;
hence one «»f ye strokes wss named a
‘cannon,* having 'been by one of' ye
said clergymen invented. The game
is now known hy the name of‘bill-
yard,’ because William or Bill Kew
did first play with a yard measure.
The slick is now railed a*kew/or
•kue.' ”, It is easy to comprehend how
“bill-yard” bad been modernized into
“billiard,” and tbe transformation of
“kew,” or “kur,” into “cue” is equal
ly apparent
“I should think vwur ps would learn
after awhile that ho I* too old to o<»!
around as lid did when he was a boy/’
said the grocery man,.n».br l»t away
from the buy for l*ar he would be
scalpid.
“That’s what I told him when he
wanted lo try my bicycle,” said the
boy, a* he broke out laughing. ‘ He
saw me riding the bicycle, and satd
he could do it aa well as I could, if he
could once get on. lint he couldu’t
spring up on it quite a* spry ss lie
tmed to, and be wanted me and my
cham to hold it white he got on. I
told him ho would get hurt, but be
said we couldn't tell him snythi.ig
■bout riding, so we got tbe bicycle
up against a shade tree, and he put
his feet on the treadles, and told ustu
turn him loose. Well, honest, I Hint
my eyes ’cause I didn’t want to see ps
get lied up in a knot. But he did.
He pushed with onn foot, and the bi
cycle turned sideways, and then ho
pushed with the oilier foot and it
began to wiggle, and then he pushed
with both feet, and pulled on the
handles, and the front wheel struck
an iron fence and a* pi went on top of
the fence the hind wheel seemed to
fear np and kick him, and pa hung to
the fence snd the bicycle hung to pa,
and they both went on the sidewalk,
the big wheel on pa’s stomach, one
handle up hi* trouser’s leg, the other
handle down hi* coal collar, and the
other wheel rolling around back and
forth over his finxers, and he yelling
to u* to Uk« it off. 1 never sa ,v two
people tangled up tbe way pa and the
bicycle was, and we bad bail to take it
apart, and take pa’s cost off and roll
up bis |iants to get him out And
when he gut np, and shook himself to
see if he wss all there, and looked at
it a* though he didn’t know it was
loaded, and looked at me and then at
my chum In a *ort of nervous way,
and looked around and shnttged as
though he expected the bicycle was
going to sneak np ^behind him nnd
kick bim again, he wanted me to go
and get tbe ax to break tin* bicycle up
with, and when 1 laughed be was go
ing to take me by the neck and maul
the bieyele, but 1 reasoned him out of
it. 1 waso’t lo biatue fur liis trying
to gallop over an iron picket fence
with a bieyele, ’cause I told him bo
better keep off it. 1 think if men
would take advice from boys uftencr
tbey wouldn’t be so apt to get their
suspender* caught on i.n Iron picket
fence and have to be picked up in a
bullet. Bu* there i* no use of us
boys telling a growu person anything,
aud by keeping still and letting them
break their bones, we save getting
a kicking. ■ It would do «ome uien lot*
of good to be boy* all their lives, then
they wouldn’t have to imitate. Hello,
there goes the police patrol wagon,
and I'm going to see how it rides on
the back step/’ and the boy went out
and jumped on the end of tho wagon,
and then picked himself up out of the
mud and felt of his bead where the
policeman’s club dropped on it.
A boat Sunday Conrtlntr.
A Brooklyn Baptist clergyman
Rev. Emory J. Haynes, bai been
preaching against a custom tbut has
become so fixed on American youths
and maiden* that a general upheaval
in social afftirs would probably re
sult from Its discontinuance. “Sun
day courting” is his theme, and he
touches every jiatriot's heart on a
tender cord. It may* be literally
speaking, very wicked to go court
ing on 8undsys, but tbe habit ha* be
come so intimately connected with
our religious and domestic life that it
will not be easily broken up. It lia*
been transmitted down from gehcr-
a lions of the past, and in very many
communities courting is worship and
worabip i* courting—so far m* the
young people are concerned. Kew
men, ministers, deacons or whatever
they be, who do not look back on
their Sunday courting scenes a*
among the fairest page* in all the
golden memories of their youth. In
fact, with a large part of tho tyisy
human race if there were no Sunday
coortidg ih-re would Ims no rourting
at all, nnd it no courting tin marry
ing, and who it fonder of weddings
than preachers? And If no marry
ing, ' civilization, religion and every
other good work would be in vain.
No, brother Haynes, there ate many
things in this life worso than Sunday
courting. It is a good thing in its
place, and Is less likely to be abused
than any other custom so general in
its extent. To put it stronger—it is
the best thing a great many of our
young people can do on Sunday*.
It keeps them out of bad company,
brings them to church and under
good Influence*, and leads to mar
riage, which is, as hinted above, one
of tbe almost invariable prerequisites
of good citizenship, as well as of
good church membership.
Look at all the greatest men in our
history—George Washington, An
drew Jackson, Henry Clay, and
thousands of others we could name.
Tbov all started ont in life a* Sunday
couriers. And in modern d*y*, there
i« tbe President himself, tbe late
General of tbe army, all our bright
aud shining light* at the pulpit, on
the foram, or ill the field, they all be
long to that class, and many of them
keep the habit np in their declining
yean, tbey so sseredly regard the
halcyon days gone by
, Be; cautious how you lay icono
clastic bands on the sacred memories
of oar past. Not till our right hand
forgets its cunning, not till our
tongue cleaves to the roof of our
mouth, not till our heart ceases to go
pit-a-pat nt the sight of youth and
beauty and innocence, will we tamelv
f-abnnt lo see Sanday courting abol
ished.
POBBTOLD SUM DEATH.
* On* day a pompous little fellow at a
dinner-table was boasting of the great
men with whom he was on Intimate
term*. He bad been in constant cor
respondence with Longfellow, 'had
lunched with Tennyson, wss In friend
ly relation* with the Prince of Wales,
nntl In abort, knew everything and
everybody. At length a quiet indivi
dual at tbe further end of the room
broke In oh the conversation with the
question:'' “*My dear *lr, did you hap
pen to know, the Siamese Twin* when
they were In thlacountry ? u Our hero,
who evidently had, is talent' for lying*
but no real genius, at once replied:
“The Siameae Twlpa, ahr? Yes, sir. I
became very intimate with one or them,
but I never had the good fortune to
meet tbe other.”
ipectable parentage,
Rumor say* say* she has mar-
well. It i* believed that litis
of this kind that hs*
^•rlth anj citizen of this
L ' i Is a lottery this
ticke's that hav#
sometime.
Mcrlwstki
A peculiar dog ie reported on. tho
plantation of IL IV. June*, of Warner-;
vllias district. When the freedmeri
assembled in their cabin and aing
atcred song* the dog stands in the
door aud trail fie* his delight by ap
proving w bines. When secular songs
are being sung tbe dag drops his
bead aud runs under the house. Sa
cred bymns in the fields bring Joyful
wbinfty but worldly songs cause the
canine to tuck bis caudal appendage
snd scamper off lo silent disgust.
Such worldly canine devotion la
. .... without parallel In all our observa-
poor but illil- tioim of the fox liouod and lordly
Probable IdeatfHad.
CIdcIcosU Ttmea BUr. ; [ } k
The fragment of a monstrous law-
bone, which cannot be Identified, haa
been presented lo our now museum.
llaiBen. Butler missed anypart of
1114 anatomy? u
SbeWanHaBIt
A little girl up town went out to
walk with her aunt and Mr. Brown,
who was playing tke devoted to the
aunt. When she came back she rush
ed up to her mother and exclaim
ed:
“Oh, mamma, what do you think?
1 dropped my petticoat while I was
walking with Sir. Brown and aun
tie.’’
“Good heavens, child, weren’t you
terribly embarrassed ?”
“No, ma’am.”
,“What did you do?”
“I Ju*t looked at it and said lo Mr.
Brown, *W’y, Mr. Brown, you’ve lost
your handkerchief/ and, mamma,
you ought to seeu him blush, and so
did auntie.’’
Consumption Cared.
An old physician, retired from prac
tice. having bad placed in bis hands by
an East India missionary the formula
ofaahnpla vegetable tomedy for the
speedy and permanent euro of Con
sumption Brouchita, Calarih. Aotli-
in* and throat and Lung Affection.
Alton positive and radical euro for
Nervone Debility aud all Nervou*
Complaints, after having tested Its
wonderful curative power* in thous
ands of esses, has felt It liis duty to
make it known to his suffering fel
lows. Actuated by this motive and a
deslra to relievo Initnnn suffering, I
will send free of charge, French or
EtiglUb, with lull directiona for pre
pat ing and usfng. Sent by addrasHing
with stamp, naming this paper, W. A.
Korea, 14JI Power** Block, Korlirater
N. Y. sopt.B-wiy-oow
—A Chicago drummer became in-
«ane when the fact became known that
Ins had two wives. Had he lived In
Utah ho would never have lost his
Lewiston, Mu.. N*>v. 16.-*-Two
week* ago l^afuvetie Cook, an oxccn-
tric citizen of Auburn, announced to
the family that lie would die on Sun
day, iNovember 11. Yesterday his
friends tame to .llii-t city to buy ti
coffin In which lo bury Ilia reumtna.
One dny last week he naked a
neighbor to take to town soms work
he had been doiti^.
“.Shall 1 bring down -nine work
for you?’naked the niun.
••No,” Cook replied, *‘l have done
all the work 1 -hall ever do.”
At the Sunday morning meal he
remarked sadly : ••! -hall never eat
ano her breakfast with you.” He
wo* in his u-ual good healdi, and io
the *lteriionu bu went out for a walk
with hi- gramlcliildrei. Kuluruiiig
to thu hou*e he calmly announced
that he would pre|»are liini-ell for his
coffin uml that be w»* toady in meet
his Maker. He shaved hitu-clf care
fully and put oil cleuu clothes. Ho
called for u spread, ami, lying down
upon a lounge, lie drew n comforter
about him, and appitronlly settled
himself for a nap.
Ills wile ntid family gathered
about him, he bidding them good
bye. Tbey were impressed by Ins
genriu enriie»tnea*, but bad no idea
ol hi* 'lying. They believed bu had
giveti too tnucb intention to'the re
ligions H lbjrcl*. and that till* whim
was the result. Mr. Conk lay with
hi* cheek testing no one I a "I and
with the itlu ritrm by Ids side. In
that |>u«iiioti hcsccme.tioft.il asleep.
Ili* friend* saw ue- change in him.
At tea tiuiM they tried to wake him.
Hu was hresthing -oftly, but they
c.mld nut rou*H Idm. He sank into a
deeper stupor, "’hey worked over
him all night nnd a i-hvsioiro called,
bn.it avail, d nothing. E-rrly yes
terday morning lie dintl. He had
made no mon-im-nt after ho first
closed hi* eyes. Those who tvere
with him scout the ides or hi* hav
ing taken drug*. They say that sui
cide never entered hi* thoughts, that
he wa-. simply willing to die because
he thought it wiisGud’s will. Those
who have investignted the cusa re
gard it a* a simple surrender of vital
power.
Overcome by Uuperstltlun.
New Y-irk Sun.
1’bilip Guyer, «.f i’utoraon, N. J,
lost a la.'gc sum of money bv theft
recently, lie susjuTied an old woman
of tho neighborhood, but did uot
have Hiifflcieiit evidence to warrant
hia nuking a compl.tint ugain-t her.
What made it tbe more suspicion-
was tbit tin* woman called every
morning to ask Mr. Guyer if be had
got any trace of thu thief. The fol
lowing story is tol.l by a I’aterson
police official: Mr. Guyer Macurt*ia-
ed that she was very superstitious,
and the next morning, when she
csll-d and asked If there waa any
uewi of thu thief, he replied: .
“No; but I expect u> know who It
wa* to-night/’
“How *f’ a-ked the womaii.
“Do you s«e those three nails?*’
said Mr. Guyer. showing tho woman
three very old and ru-tv nails.
“Wel!, they came from a coffin that
had been buried fora hundred years.’’
“Tbu Virgin *av<i u-/' raid the
woman, crossing herself.
“And do you see that paper?”
“I do.’’
“Well, that i* * prsver. which I
just got from liiu priest.*’
“And what are you going to do
with those things’:*
“Well/’ answered Mr. Gayer, alow
ly ami impressively looking the
woman io tbe face, “to night al 12
o’clock I am to go into a curtain yard
where there i* n pear tree. 1 am to
nail that prayer to the tree with
these three nails. Every time I drive
a nail i am to repeat that prayer
aloud. When I drive tbe last nail
and repent the prayer for tie last
time the poison who stole thu money
will drop dead.”
The wuinuti turned pale, nnd de
parted without saying a word. That
evening, about 8 o'clock, lb. ro waa n
rapal bis front door. He went to
the door and there wa* no one in
gbt, but on tbu ail! he found t a
small package containing tho money
that had been stolon.
In the Parlor.
New York JournU.
“What does your aister aay about
mo?’’a-ked a young man of the small
brother or the maiden he thought he
loved. .
“Oh. lots!” sententious!}* exclaimed
the precocious boy.
“Well, tell me,” said the youth in
a coaxing voice.
“She -ays you’ve got lot* ol
money?”
“Well, what else?”
“I don’t like to tell.”
’“Ob, cornu; tell tne and I’ll give
you some candv.”
“Well, she aay* that if she ever
married you she'd loan you to Farm
er Cornstalk fora scarecrow.
“I* that all?” he sarcastically in
quired.
“Oh, not She said if it wasn’t for
yonr ears the top part of your head
would be an island, and that if your
nose wa* a little longer you could
stir your coffee with it, and if—”
But the young man had closed th<>
front door after him and was scooting
down the street on a dog trot.
An Ounce orProveutton.
Harper's Uapxlua.
Sometimes an ounce of proven
Hon i* worse than a pound of dis
ease. One day last week the chil
dren catnelruuning In, shrieking that
a big hawk was circling over the
poultry-yard. Old Fanner Thistl-
poil dropped his |mper, caught his
trusty gun from the rack, and charged
for the poultry-vard. He ran right
overs bee stand just the other aide
of (he cypres* bush, and wa* stung
in thirty place* before ho jumped
over the fenc* of the poultry-yard,
alighting upon the old black ben tint
was brooding thirteen chicks, break
ing her neck, aud mashing five hap
less “wcetles”; the gun caught in .the
fence as hs jumped, and went off,
killing a young turkey, and filling
the Durham heifer in the meadow
nearly fu I of Imduhot; while the
hawk, alone balm and self-possoised
iu the midst of the tumult aud con
tusion, sailed gracefully awav with
the one spring ch cken. he had nil
along intended to levy on.
Important Laws.
As it will bo sometime before the
laws passed at the last session of lljo
Legislature aro distributed, we pub
lish for information 1 of parties inter
ested the following act*:
BEOISTIIATION. OF LIQUOB DEALERS-
From and after January 1,1884,
and annually thereafter; each per-
soii or firm desiring to eugage iu tbe
sale of spirituous or malt / liquors or
intoxicating bitters, or in either or
all of them, in this State, shall, be
fore he or they commcnco tbe sale
of such spirituous or malt liquors or
intoxicating bittens go beToro the
Ordinary ot - the county in which be
or they proposo to sell said spirit*
nous or tnalt liquors or intoxicating
biuers, and register hia or their
names as aurh dealer. >
rnoor of accounts in justice
cocnTS.
Sec. 4151 of the Code is ameuded
so a* to read as follows:
When suit is brought -upon an
open account in a justice court, such,
account may be proved by the writ
ten affidavit ol the plaintifi, and
when so proved shall be received in
evidence a4 If U wa* proved in open
court; nevertheless, il the defendant
will file his writteu affidavit, deny
ing tho justice aud fairness of tbe
whole or any part of such account,
tho court shall not give judgment in
tavor of tiie plaintiff for that/ part or
the account so denied or controvert
ed, unless supported by other proof;
provided, that in mil cases when such
affidavit is made, there shall be per--
tonal service tipou the defendant be
fore judgment is given lor the plain
tiff under the provisional of tills sec
tion; provided, further, that in all
rases where a counter affidavit is
filed by the defendant,arid tboplain
tiff is uot present at. the court, it
shall be the duty of the justice of the
peaco to continue such case until the
iioatl term of said OOUrt; and provid
ed further, that nothing in this sec
tion contained shall applv.lo. suits
against administrators anu executors
uii contracts of their deceased’ testa
tor* and intestates.
EMPLOYING SERVANTS AND CROPPERS.
Sec. 4500 of thu Codo is amended
so as to read aa foilowa:
If any person, by himself or agent,
shall be guilty of employing the ser
vant, cropper or farm laborer of
another, under a written contract,
w hich shall be attested by oue or
more witnesses, daring the term for
which he, she or .they may be em
ployed, knowing that such servant,
cropper or farm laborer was *o em-‘
ployed, a id that his term of service
lias not expired; or If dny person.or
persons shall entice, peratude or
decoy, or attempt to entice, persuade
oi decoy any servant, cropper or
farm laborer, whether under a writ
ten or parol contract, after be, 'she or
tbey shall have actually enter d the
service of hia or her employer, to
leave hia employer, either by offering
higher wage*, or any way whatever,
during the term of service, knowing
that said servant, cropper or farm
laborer was so employed, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished as prescribed by section
4310 or the code of this Sute.
JURIES INJUSTICES COURTS.
See. 4157 i» amended as follows:
All appeal* shall bo tried .before
the justice of the peace or notary
public, or both, and five jurors
drawn, itnponnelcd and eworn as
follows, to-wit: The Justice iu
each district shall once in every
twbyem make out a list of mil per
sons liable to serve as jurors in the
superior court, who may.reside in
their re*i>ective districts, and shall
write their names ou separate pieces
of paper and deposit them in a
bix marked No. 2. If the'list Is,
in tbe dccrotibn of the justice of the.
peace or notary public; as the
rase may be, too small, then' tbe {jus
tice of tbe peace, notary public and
one of the jury commissioners, and
if no notary then the justice of the
p&ce and two of the Jury commis
sions of the county, may select from
i be list of tbe tax payer* of the dis
trict such a number ot the most up
right snd intelligent men as they may
ice fit aud proper, to add to said
list of the jurors; provided, however,
that the list' when to increased shall
not exceed oue-fourth of the voting
population of the district. Said jus
tice or one of them, or one ol them
in public on comt day, in conjunc
tion with a constable, shall, if any is
pending or notiee thereof given,
draiv, after shak'ng the box, uine
namoa therefrom, which names, after
being recorded’ in a book, shall be
deposited in a box marked No. 2.
After all' the names is drawn from
box No. I, then tbe drawing shall
commence on box No. 2, and so on
alternately. The. jurors so drawn
thall be summoned by tbe constable
or other lawful officer at least five
days before the court St which they
•re called upon to serve, and if there
should be a deficiency of jurors at the
trial from cause or absence, the con
stable, by direction of tho court, shall,
complete tbe jury by talismen to nine
‘Voiii whom the plaintiff and defend
ant shall have two strike* each.’’
Wot th Star..
During the war, and at that period
•>f it tvhen Gen. Gib Wright •- was
“messing” with LieuteuauL (Gen
eral Wade IInmpton,'thc former be
ing a Major-General, an incident
took place which will bo interesting
reading lo all old soldiers. T'iio com
mand bad halted for a few daya* rest,
and Hampton at once dispatch an
orderly to a fine residence near by
with instructions to procure a good
breakfast for hi* “mess.” In a short
time one of “Co. D.” repaired to the
house snd railed for the breakfast
ttiat General Hampton had ordered.
The lady gave it to., bim, and apol
ogized for not having it ready soon
er. Another member of the comps-
iny proceeded to beadquarteisan*! in
vited “Old Gib” down to break-
fa»L IIo went, and waa .surpris
ed at thn excellent faro act before
bim When Hampton’* messenger
went for tbe breakfast he waa . told
that U had already been scut. The
up«bot of the business was, that
Hampton bad to order another break-
fa«t cooked. History does not say
that “Old Gib” put the boys up to
tho trick, hut it is our private belief
that ho did.
A Level-Haded Indian.
Tn the city of llnlfax there dwelt a
lawyer crafty, subtile ns a fox. An
Indian of the Miami tribe named
Simon owed him Monte money. The
lawyer hnd wailed long. Hi* pa
tience at last gave out, mid he threat
ened the Indian wltblawMuil, prnce**
and execution. Tito poor red man
got scared, and brought the money
to the creditor. The Indian waited,
expecting a,receipt. “ Whnt are you
wsitiiu for?” asked the lawyer, “a
receiptwhat do you'know about a
receipt? enn you understand the
nature of a receipt ? Tell tne ihb nso
of one and I will give It to you.” Thn
Indian looked at him a moment, and
and then said. “S’posn may be roe
die; may go to liehen. me llnri tbe gate
locked, me see '1‘iiRtle Peter; bn say*
‘.Million, wliat yon wmii ?’ me hjijt,
•Want to gel in ; lot ray, ‘You t'*y Mr,
-I. dnt money {- Whnt m« do? Mu hnb
no receipt. Have to limit all ober
boll to find you!” He got n receipt.
Hartford, Conn., ha* just had a
delugo of snails from a passing cloud.
Mounds a LUllo UIrU, But—
Burtlnston U*wk*js.
A Nashville man had lo pay $800
for kitting a school teacher. Well, it
sounds high, brethren, $800; but if
•die was tho right kind of a school-
ma’iini, with pink cheeks and a while
apron, not so tall by a head aud
shoulder* a* the Inggrat boy in
school, with brown eyes undecided
whether to lie roguish or serious, a
nuoutli mndo for smileiand her chin
fastened on with dimples, |uat a rip
ple in her h*iri a—a—or—a-—and the
Nashville man was deliberate about
it aud enjoyed it; and didn’t kiss her
like a terrier snapping at a fly,
—or—n—wo’ro growing old now, but
if Ihingf were’about as above sug-
Rented, wo'don’t know but the Nash
ville jury let him have It jiiHt a little
under the ruling quotation. He
ought to he willing to pay n thous-
*im1 for iknnvhow.
Ladle* may be neon daily riding
tricycles In Fitirmount Park, Phila
delphia. A ‘•sociable” tricycle hn*
nl*o been Introduced, In which a
gentleman and ludy can alt aide by
aids.
—•Brunswick now docs most of
her business on tbe B. & W. railroad.
•—Striking improvements
being made on tbe Gulf House in
Thomssvilte.
—An Immense root was struck at
a depth of eighteen feet in boring
the artotian well in Baiubridge.
—Prof. A. B. Niles,of Atlanta,one
of Georgia’s brightest educators, is
dead. He was Prraidentof the Grif
fin Female College for a long while.
—The Telegraph and Messenger
says there were twel ve book agents
in Maeou. Saturday, and as oaeb one
had to pay s tax of $5 tho city treas
ury was enriched.
—The drouth in the vicinity of
Valdosta aud Staten ville, in Echols
county, is tlmost unprecedented,
aud entails uutold suffering, incon
venience and finaiiraal loss.
—Mr. Parker Callaway, of Wash
ington, Ga^ takes the cake. He has*
caught between ninety, and one hun
dred 'possums this season. Ue made
score of tqtenty-fivo In ono night
recently, ail of very good slxo.
—An old country Indy created
quite a sensation on the streets of
Macon, a few daya since, by having
an old-fashioned skillet, in which sbo
kept a fire, placed in the bottom of
her buggy. - She was determined to
keep warm.
—The Sumter Republican haa the
following about the state of Flint
river: Bill Horne says that be ran
now wade Flint river. It ie drying
up, and the bridge ain’t of much con
sequence. Alligators, turtles
fish are becoming disgusted snd leav
ing for other quarters.
—Rev. John Viekcra, near Wills-
coochee. reports to the Berrien Coun
ty: JVeira a very'queer freak of a
branch near his house.' It haa been
perfectly dry for some time,*aml tbe
other day It began to ran and fur
nishes a’ tolerably good - supply of
.water, notwithstanding the tact that
we have not had .enough rain to lay
tbe dust In over two months.
-Montezuma Record: Not even
the “oldest inhabitant” recollects
having seen before Ju«t such weath
er aa wo have been having There
has not been enough rain to lay tbe
dust tiuee the latter part of June, al
though we have every indication of
run occasionally, it dears away cool,
and we are still dry. Old Prob
man be on a tear, or else the pray
ers of the righteous are not directed
right.
—Gin hooso burnings are becom
ing alarmingly frequent of late.
The Sumter Republican reports that
on Tuesday evening, about 7 o’dock,
the gin house of Mr. J. T. Howe,
three miles west of Amerieos, was
set on fire, so It wss supposed, and
burned to the ground. It contained
nearly fonr bales of cotton, about
fifteen hundred bushels of cottonseed,
a gin, thresher, fan, the gearing and
horso power. The house wasqnite
new, and is* said to have been the
best gin houke, mo-c complete in nil
departments; in this section. Mr.
Howe estimates hia loss at between
$1^00 and $1,800. No insurance.
•The Greensboro Borne Journal
is responsible for this: A few days
ago Homer Moore, son of Mr. A. C.
Moore, wss driving a yoke of oxen
along the road, when they became
frightened and dashed off through
tho woods nearby. They ran iuto
a tree and tho horn on one of the
oxen was knocked completely offi
flying a distance often or twelve feet
from the tree. Homer hurriedly
grabbed up the horn nud soused U in
its socket. It took hold and grew tn
its former plsee, and is now as
as ever. The only objeetlon is that
Homer, in his haste, got tbs horn on
bottom upward, and it has a tenden
cy to be lop-sided. Save this little
fault th“ horn is all right, and the
ox prances around and hooks things
with his old-time ennrgy.
out -xerox’* guuoeophy.
pull* up do young wheat. All dis
times woodpecker lias been digglu’
a worm outen a tree.
I has noticed dal all great men re
tains In arter life de early impres
sions of childhood. Dis srar heah is
whar my fodder hit me wid a aarsa-
fras eprouu
De doctor stands at de beginnin'
of life and de undertaker stands at
do end. One hraha de foot cry ob
de infant, de udder heaha de moan
in’ ober de grab* ob 8e dead.
De barber begins his business at
de foot an* den goes up to de head.
From a bootblack, he climbs to de
top ob de profession.
A novel and curious surgical
operation was performed in 8vra-
case, N. Y., Wednesday. A work
man tell from tbe roof of a house 50
feet high, and bis neck was dislocat
ed precisely as if it had been done
by hanging. He was completely para
lyzed !n ’ hia body and limbs, and
wae devoid of sensation, but could
speak. Four stout men were put to
pulling—two at his head and two at
liis feet—while tho doctor pushed
the bones iuto place. It took nearly
throe hours to eel hia neck, but as
soon as tho operation was completed,
and the pressure on the spinal mar
row removed, the man sat up and
said he felt belter, and Iris recovery
is confidently expected. Science
may yet deviae some means ot cheat-
Ing tho wallow* out of its victims.—
Savannah News.
Absolutely
f Wn*. A auuvstW y«n
ROYAL BAKING POWDER COu
■torpid bowels. I
DISORDERED : LIVER,'
HOnl MALARIA.
ii|o*?SS*?SS a a SS? Ul * w
PILX3 have no c^oal. ■
teagggrJl
pss
Su&esnxfiftus'
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA, i
HE FEELS UKE A ZCEW BAS.
IgwwafcBis
nuTmujijDVE.1
■rsasssgsgiavSl
AT rrSnSP-S? ggLSKggg **
PRICE* TO FIT the short crop
mumnratormmSr^
Dry Goods Department
FULL ANDIC0MFLETE
Capital Prize $150,000.
Wit do' hotly certify that tn m
arraay taunts for ett the 1fond _
Semi-Annual Drawings of The Louietana
“• *i, Lottery Company, * '
. in manage and control the
thtnudcu -mu? that the name cite
with honesty, fairness, ends* good faith to~
wards all partis*, and we authorise d* Com
pany to use thi* certificate,'with fac-emda
of owe rignatmree attached, Ot etc adoertwe-
Bjrav vcrwhclmlng popular
eMie was made apart of the
Constitution adopted Deeember 2d, A. D-,
Ml.
ItoOrand sm&le N umber O
wilt Uke pise* month'y Jam toak*or
Look at the To 0o« Ing UMribuUon:
S08d Grand Montbljr
A«D'nut
EXTRAORDINARY SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING
At Ntw Odtsss. 9aatw.£K*atarlS. IBS.
mSuof *** pcnuo * 1 * n P* r ri»loa end awnege-
Gen. G. T BEAUKEGAKD, of Lon-
isiana, snd Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY,
of Virginia
CAPITAL PRIZE $150,000.
aw mum.—SUMS am Cm BdSot eslp. Edna, SS.
nm tz. icttts, sz.
t CAPITAL PRIZE OF ftS*£OS....fUSJGM
1 UR ANO PRIZE OF MAM... SO. S*
1 <JU-ND PRIZE OK NJA... 10.400
“•iARUK PittZK.1 OF 11,0.0. -
Hemember, young man, dat do
man what han’les de most books ain’t
de best eddyrated. I know.d a book
binder once dat couldn’t read.
I may differ from de religions
folks when I says l’se got more res
pect fur de woodpecker den 1 has fur
de dovo. De dove Is Vcil’ul. Hell
coo around snd coax yer Into sympa
thy, but os soon as yer back is turn
ed ho goes ober inter de field and ***£*•** *«o"" *m!mo
wo « si.’.'.'.
me.... 30.0 0
i,coo “
Z^tTS Prizes, amounting to—..
Application
made only to
New Orleans.
For farther information writ* dearly, mv-
tag fall addrea*. Mike r. O. Money Or-
den payable, ami address Registered Letter*
»BW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK
New Orleans, La.
. POSTAL NOTM and ordinary Utters
by A all or Etpmi (all sums of Lir ’ —
ward* by Express at onr exprate) to
atm. A.BACPniR,
607 Seventh Mreet.
eepH.watf.wlRL
A correspondent desires to know
how to prepare a pit for the pres
ervation of plants and flowers dur
ing, the winter. Tho pit should be
porfoctlv dry ground, having a South
ern inclination, and be from four to
five feet in depth. It should be
walled on nil aide*, so «tiat tho front
wall will be about eighteen in
ches stitl llie back trail three foot
above the surface el’ the ground. The
*nali to cover tho pit co*t« about $3,
tor n section memuirlug 3 by 6 fret,
with -straw mala or some similar
subRtauco. Iu a pit thus prepared
plants, enmoHaa, geranium*, sxales*,
violets, carnation*, wall flowers ten-
week sto-k* and cats lilies ran be
sown to advantage.
SAVANNAH.QA
.tOUS mtl£SKA X.mannurr,
Wo smuud oai-irv-rasnu trom high aollurUy
Having tb pi«l at teeUaiakan U*m white la
ttevasnaak wa meat cbaartuDv utoaHU Ladtea
and FamUirau btiogstrictly• ftnt-Uambooaa
ta^.umgauraau. aarimlted U Uw —
A. 11. COLQUITT, Guv. of Ox.
er. u. BLuxuAii.Gov. or Fla
UBO.r; DUKW.Ex-Gov.cfHx,
Um. T. M. NORWOOD.
Kx-D. 8. Senator from o'*.
■ ~ ILALX. ~ '
Summer Kates $2 nml.l2.oO per Day
COLUMN.
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Prints.
Checks.
Sheeting,
Osnaburgs,
Notions
LADIES’DRESSGOODS
Pine Silks,
Trimmings,
Laces of all Kinds,
SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND-MISSES UN*
DERVESTS, Eta.
A FVLLSXOCK or
WHICH WILL BE SOLD LOW DOWN.
Is now Complete, and was purchased
with great care. If you wish to Buy a
Nice Suit for it Small Sum of Money
come and see us and we will save you
Money. .
We am DRpared te mart ell .OampMIUen. AU
wamkb&r yea toeam*team «u end price onr
•bararad yea will M Bare to boy. We bought
oar Boots and ShocoteaeU and wn «m gOogio
rnrmMBUt tbep*Mle_gtnemUy nil] find ear
Norm DfpMtossnt ihM* awrtwlo with
OBOCHL& ,h * W * J * rrAMU - Y AND FANCY
W* hey ear OmMrim la Car Land Lata sad caa
save yea maeey lathe rarabeae ot ail Uahn
FLOUR J
this maiksi; nod only %nybyUrnSrtewf P * J *“
FURNITURE!
On* Oar bead of B
vrlUbte. tn-
MKN la every
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OFPBR LIBVUAL SNDL'CKBKNTS.
A|tplIrani,will lvaM9«lve*ce,eap*cteii9c(irniiy)
and irfurnncr u to chancier and habit*.
A SPLENDID CHANGES”:
net *1 raid of work and vanitoMAKK ST
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